After Klarna, Zoom’s CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call

CEOs at the moment are so immersed in AI, they’re sending their avatars to deal with quarterly earnings calls as an alternative of themselves, a minimum of partially.

After the Klarna CEO’s AI avatar appeared on an investor call earlier this week, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan adopted swimsuit, additionally using his avatar for initial comments. Yuan deployed his customized avatar by way of Zoom Clips, the corporate’s asynchronous video creation instrument.

“I’m proud to be among the many first CEOs to make use of an avatar in an earnings name,” he — or fairly his avatar — mentioned. “It is only one instance of how Zoom is pushing the boundaries of communication and collaboration. On the similar time, we all know belief and safety are important. We take AI-generated content material significantly and have inbuilt robust safeguards to stop misuse, shield person id, and guarantee avatars are used responsibly.”

Yuan has lengthy advocated for utilizing avatars in conferences and has beforehand mentioned that the corporate goals to create digital twins of users. He’s not alone on this imaginative and prescient; the CEO of AI-powered transcription service Otter is reportedly coaching his personal avatar to share the workload.

In the meantime, Zoom mentioned that it’s making the custom avatar add-on feature available to all customers this week.